Pawn, Now with Added Wowhead Awesome

Some of you may know about this little addon from the last time we mentioned it, but for those who don't here's a little explanation: Pawn is an addon that takes the stats from an item you are looking at and gives it a score based on a weight scale, very similar to our own stat weighting system. The higher the score the "better" the item is according to the weight scales you design.

And now, Pawn users will be happy to know that the team over there has added a little extra awesome into the addon by using our stat-weights by default!

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tsaavik의 댓글

If you are capped in an attribute (like +hit), make sure to copy and edit that stat out of the default wowhead scale.

awweaver의 댓글

on 2010-03-03T16:44:25-06:00

Pawn is truly awesome...

Helminthophobe의 댓글

on 2010-03-03T18:28:25-06:00

Gearscore ≠ Skill... Just a random thought. :P

soccergenius의 댓글

on 2010-03-03T19:14:38-06:00

Gearscore ≠ Skill... Just a random thought. :P

This isn't gearscore, this addon helps the player determine whether a piece of gear is an upgrade or not based on their current stats and their relative worth to the player.

Liquoid의 댓글

on 2010-03-03T20:03:07-06:00

What's Gearscore?

Rskout의 댓글

on 2010-03-03T20:16:03-06:00

gearwut? What is this I dont even...

netrbrunet의 댓글

on 2010-03-04T08:11:18-06:00

One thing I found lacking in the Wowhead stat-weights is how they ignore on-use effects of trinkets and weapons.I tried looking up trinkets for my warlock the other day, and a whole whack of very viable trinkets never showed up (or were ranked very low) because they had "Use:" abilities that are not taken into consideration. So Blood of the Old God was ranked way higher than Cying Curse. For a warlock, this is pretty clearly wrong.I can appreciate that some of the "Use:" abilities are difficult to calculate in terms of effectiveness. But with known proc rates and some assumed cast freequency, surely some sort of approximation can be made?

Can anyone confirm if Pawn does this? Or does it also ignore 'special' weapon procs and trinkets' abilities?

Wasselin의 댓글

on 2010-03-04T15:33:36-06:00

It would probably be a good idea for pawn and wowhead to figure out a way to approximate proc type effects because it seems like they are planning to add more of them to weapons and trinkets in the future.

Also, how do you determine your default stat weights? I find the holy paladin stat weights to be a patch or two behind.

Vger의 댓글

on 2010-03-05T01:50:33-06:00

Like Wowhead's weights, Pawn also doesn't assign any value to procs or trinket abilities. It'll put a (*) asterisk next to any line on your tooltip that didn't count toward a value because it wasn't a pure stat, including any Use and Chance on Hit effects. Some trinkets have pretty well-calculated stat equivalences, but for a lot of healing trinkets (for example), even the stat equivalences can vary wildly from class to class and spec to spec. One mana restore trinket might be worth 100 MP5 for a shaman with chain heal and only 20 MP5 for a holy paladin.

(In many cases, the numbers you'll see for a given item will be exactly the same in both Pawn and Wowhead. The most likely reason for a variance is that Pawn disagrees about which type of gem you should use.)

reubenhelms의 댓글

on 2010-03-08T20:32:57-06:00

I'm a fan of Pawn.

Where as GearScore just looks at the stats on an item, Pawn actually takes into account your spec and gives an appropriate number than can be used for comparison. What's good for a DK Blood DPS isnt necessarily best for a DK Blood Tank (or DK Unholy DPS, for that matter), yet GearScore will rank the item the same across the board.

I enjoy using Pawn in conjunction with the outfit generator in Outfitter, just to do a quick check if I'm not using all the gear at my disposal to the best ability.

And the caveat is that nothing replaces thinking for my self, however, addons like Pawn and Outfitter do make it easier to get to the important decisions.

budgie의 댓글

on 2010-06-30T04:02:46-05:00

So basically this is a rip off of gearscore. I don't support gear score, but this is pretty much the same factoring in like one other thing.

All these mods should be bannable.

Zokudu의 댓글

on 2010-06-30T04:14:12-05:00

So basically this is a rip off of gearscore. I don't support gear score, but this is pretty much the same factoring in like one other thing.

All these mods should be bannable.

This article was necroed but even then Pawn is very different from GearScore. Pawn takes input values from you the user and creates an score based on what stats your character is looking for visible only to you. Its similar to the addon Tankpoints but usable for all classes using hand picked EP values.

Say for instance a Resto shaman seeks Haste > SP > Crit (In theory). You would value within Pawn how much more you favor haste. Say 3x more than SP. You would set SP = 1 and Haste = 3 so when Pawn sees an item with 150 Haste and 100 SP it scores 550 Points but a piece with 100 Haste and 150 SP only scores 450 so the piece worth 550 is better.

This system is all designed by you based on how you value stats and only visible to you and is meant as a tool to determine quickly weather something is an upgrade or not.

Tubey의 댓글

on 2010-06-30T05:09:00-05:00

So basically it's a personal Gearscore determining upgrades without the whole world judging you on your gear and ruining WoW.

I would dearly love to see Gearscore banned. It has essentially created a two-tier permanent hierarchy for raiding.

I have no problem with this if it just helps people determine upgrades - I would have a problem if it publishes them to the wider realm.

Zokudu의 댓글

on 2010-06-30T06:20:57-05:00

Your not understanding the use of this tool. Gearscore averages ilvl Pawn takes the stats on the items and compares it to a list of stat weights you input. Pawn is much more in depth and takes into account that say for instance paladins don't use ArP so those 264 boots may be a downgrade of your 245 because it has a lot of ArP.

Its just a physical representation of EP values created from sims for easy access rather than simming and doing the math yourself.

Rilgon의 댓글

on 2010-06-30T08:49:33-05:00

So basically this is a rip off of gearscore.

...You are an idiot.

Gearscore: Based off of item levelPawn: Based off of a per-character formula of stat weights